Appeals Court Upholds Raunchy Play as Fair Use Parody of Grinch
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled in favor of playwright Matthew Lombardo, finding the lower court was correct in ruling Lombardo's play Who's Holiday! is ...
Tag: copyright infringement
Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited, NZ Court Of Appeal Rules
The New Zealand Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court's ruling that Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom can be extradited for trial in the United States on criminal copyright infringement ...
Critics Say EU Copyright Proposal “Threatens the Internet”
A proposed change to European copyright law would require sites which allow users to upload content to use digital content filtration technology to prevent copyright infringement. Critics, including a long ...
Sympathy For Norm Zada, Who Sometimes Had A Point
WASHINGTON – Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Perfect 10 v. Giganews, putting to an end litigation which began in 2011, in which Perfect 10 accused ...
The Long Overdue Comeuppance Of John Steele
DANVILLE, Ill. – As you’ve no doubt heard by now, infamous “copyright troll” attorney John Steele has been disbarred, an unsurprising development in the wake of his pleading guilty to fraud ...
Judge Threatens to Bar Malibu Media Copyright Suits
SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge in California has ordered X-art parent company Malibu Media to prove the accuracy of the geolocation technology it uses to identify copyright infringers. If the ...
If the Tubes Really Want to Put My Mind at Ease…
NEW YORK – In the wake of the announcement Congress intends to repeal a Federal Communications Commission rule (albeit one that hadn’t become effective yet) that would have required internet service providers to obtain ...
Judge Orders Serial Copyright Suit Filer’s Assets Sold
LOS ANGELES – Norm Zada and Perfect 10 finally got in over their heads. A district court judge has ordered all assets belonging to Perfect 10 be liquidated to satisfy ...
One-third of U.S. Consumers Watch Pirated Content
AMSTERDAM – Three-quarters of American consumers age 18 or older believe producing or sharing pirated video content is illegal, and 69 percent believe streaming or downloading pirated content is illegal. ...
YouTube: World’s Largest Host of Pirated Porn?
CYBERSPACE – A new report on TorrentFreak suggests the biggest platform for content piracy is not any of the usual tube site or torrent suspects. Instead, the elephant in the ...
